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Red Planet Impact: Huge Moons May Have Crashed Into Mars

Posted in Science on 5th Jul, 2016
by Alex Muller

The moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, may be the only survivors of a giant impact that created many short-lived, but now-absent moons.

An ocean lies a few kilometers beneath Saturn's moon Enceladus's icy surface

Posted in Science on 25th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

Strong heat production in Enceladus's deep interior may power the hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

Japan wants to take autonomous construction extraterrestrial

Posted in Science on 21st Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

JAXA is looking to take autonomous construction technology to the undeveloped plains of the Moon and Mars.

Ice exoplanets and moons can have habital deep oceans

Posted in Science on 17th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

Water-rich planets are obvious candidates for finding life and have attracted increasing attention in recent years.

Asteroids 'dumped water into the molten Moon'

Posted in Science on 1st Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

How and when water got trapped in volcanic lunar rocks is a huge and open question for planetary scientists.